Comments on: Cervical cancer vaccinehttp://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/153/cervical-cancer-vaccine/
A place to share your thoughts, criticisms and comments.Tue, 24 Dec 2013 01:58:20 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.3By: Evanstarhttp://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/153/cervical-cancer-vaccine/comment-page-1/#comment-1629
Fri, 04 May 2007 14:52:06 +0000http://blogs.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=153#comment-1629The following publication was made by National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) takes a deeper look at the flaws of the HPV clinical trials conducted by Merck:

“NVIC maintains that Merck’s clinical trials did not prove the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine designed to prevent cervical cancer and genital warts is safe to give to young girls.

Animal and human studies have shown that aluminum can cause nerve cell death and that vaccine aluminum adjuvants can allow aluminum to enter the brain, as well as cause inflammation at the injection site leading to chronic joint and muscle pain and fatigue.

Nearly 90 percent of Gardasil recipients and 85 percent of aluminum placebo recipients followed-up for safety reported one or more adverse events within 15 days of vaccination, particularly at the injection site.[8] Pain and swelling at injection site occurred in approximately 83 percent of Gardasil and 73 percent of aluminum placebo recipients. About 60 percent of those who got Gardasil or the aluminum placebo had systemic adverse events including headache, fever, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, diarrhea, myalgia.

Merck and the FDA do not reveal in public documents exactly how many 9 to 15 year old girls were in the clinical trials, how many of them received hepatitis B vaccine and Gardasil simultaneously, and how many of them had serious adverse events after being injected with Gardasil or the aluminum placebo. For example, if there were less than 1,000 little girls actually injected with three doses of Gardasil, it is important to know how many had serious adverse events and how long they were followed for chronic health problems, such as juvenile arthritis.

Clinical trial investigators dismissed most of the 102 Gardasil and placebo associated serious adverse events, including 17 deaths, that occurred in the clinical trials as unrelated.”

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We deserve BETTER RESEARCH than this in the cited clinical trials that led to this vaccine being approved by the FDA. As a scientist, I am appalled at the irresponsible design and conclusions in the clinical trial papers. BOTH the trial group (who received Gardasil) and the placebo group showed ZERO INCIDENCE of the HPV virus, there were NO differences between the two groups in HPV outcome.

Furthermore, the GIRLS AGED 9-13 WERE NOT TESTED FOR SAFETY NOR EFFICACY. Beware parents, the children in this age group are at risk for being the “clinical trial” for Merck and that role is very risky for a vaccine with so many dismissed adverse events.

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Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:12:11 +0000http://blogs.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=153#comment-1628If a woman chooses to have this shot, so be it. But she should know this: Diane M. Harper, a lead researcher in the development of the humanpapilloma virus vaccine, says:

- giving the drug to 11-year-old girls “is a great big public health experiment.”

- The vaccine only works if the woman/girl does not have a current vaccine type related infection.

- The only way to test for the presence of HPV is through a vaginal swab – which is inappropriate for young girls.

- “So far more than 40 cases of Guillian-Barre syndrome – a dangerous immune disorder that causes tingling, numbness and even paralysis of the muscles have been reported in girls who have received the HPV vaccine in combination with the meningitis vaccine. Scientists already know that sometimes a vaccine can trigger the syndrome in a subject. “With the HPV vaccine, it is a small number but higher than is expected, and we don’t know if it’s the combination of the two, or the meningitis alone,” Harper said.”

[The above comes from an interview with Harper by Cindy Bevington, published at kpcnews.com on March 14, 2007. The article has since been archived.]

I personally believe that many drugs, due to marketing pressures and unsavory connections between the FDA, CDC, and the drug companies, are released and marketed with far too little research. If someone wants to be involved in experimental drugs, that is certainly their choice. But to make something mandatory without sufficient research, and without revealing its experimental nature, is something else again.

I actually heard an arrogant doctor on PBS state that doctors alone should make the decision, without informing the patient or her parents, of the risk. I’m afraid this attitude is more prevalent than we believe.

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Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:23:46 +0000http://blogs.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=153#comment-1627If it would stop this virurs in males too, it should be manditory for every child. What do we want, a population where half are pemanently religated to being vectors for something that can cause such misery in a segment of our population? Fundimentalist religionists have to stop wearing their sphincter muscles as a helmet and join the real world, sex isn’t going away any time soon.
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Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:56:33 +0000http://blogs.timesunion.com/readandreact/?p=153#comment-1626Although I do not think the vaccine should be mandatory- I believe that any responsible parent would want their daughter to receive the vaccine. Many parents want to say that this will give their daughter “permission” to engage in sexual activity, but I don’t believe that. A vaccine will not replace the moral values you teach your children. Other parents are worried about the possible long term effects this drug may have. That is where parents need to research and find out what the FDA has found and make their decisions based on that. I have elected to have my daughter immunized and it gives me some peace of mind that this is one cancer she will not have to endure in her lifetime.
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